OCSL Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Oaktree Specialty Lending - Closed End | NASDAQ:OCSL)

Oaktree Specialty Lending Corp is a specialty finance company. The company provides lending services and invests in small and mid-sized companies. The company's investment objective is to maximize its portfolio's total return by generating current income from debt investments, and to a lesser extent, capital appreciation from equity investments. The company provides customized, one-stop credit solutions to companies with limited access to public or syndicated capital markets. The company operates as a single reportable segment and derives revenues from investing in originated loans and other securities, including broadly syndicated loans, of U.S. private companies and manages the business on a consolidated basis.

Oaktree Specialty Lending - Closed End trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol OCSL.

As of May 1, 2026, OCSL stock price climbed to $12.86 with 637,401 million shares trading.

OCSL has a beta of 0.52, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. OCSL has a correlation of 0.11 to the broad based SPY ETF.

OCSL has a market cap of $1.13 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Oaktree Specialty Lending - Closed End reported $75 million in Revenue and $.41 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-213,502 and exceeded earnings estimates by $.03.

In the last 3 years, OCSL traded as high as $21.64 and as low as $10.63.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that OCSL belongs to (by Net Assets): BIZD, FBDC, VPC, PCR.

OCSL has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +9.1% while the SPY ETF gained +30.4%. However, in the short term, OCSL had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +7.6% vs +4.4% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, OCSL shares have been beat by the market, returning -2.0% compared to an SPY return of +1.5%.

OCSL support price is $12.38 and resistance is $12.86 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that OCSL shares will trade within this expected range on the day.